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Engagement in meaningful activity is an important aspect of human existence, regardless of one's cognitive abilities. Even in the later stages of dementia, people can still be engaged in activities at a level that allows them to be successful. In fact in these later stages, where cognitive abilities may be waning, the need for activity becomes greater, as cognitive stimulation helps preserve what skills remain. For care staff looking after older people, many of whom may have some degree of dementia, coming up with ideas for activities of a suitable level to keep their residents engaged and stimulated can be challenging. The Activity Year Book solves this problem, offering week by week themed activities. From Valentine's Day quizzes to Bonfire Night word searches, it has activities relating to every important date in the calendar, and also encourages reminiscence and discussion around these events. This book will be invaluable to care staff looking for a simple way of improving the lives of their residents, week by week, all year round. more...

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PART I: Conceptual Background. 1. Affective Neuroscience: History and Major Concepts. 2. Emotional Operating Systems and Subjectivity: Methodological Problems and a Conceptual Framework for the Neurobiological Analysis of Affect. 3. Varieties of Emotional Systems in the Brain--Theories, Taxonomies, and Semantics. 4. Neurostatistics: The Anatomy of the Brain/Mind. 5. Neurodynamics: The Electrical Languages of the Brain. 6. Neurodynamics: Neurochemical Maps of the Brain. PART II: Basic Emotional and Motivational Processes. 7. Sleep, Arousal, and Mythmaking in the Brain. 8. SEEKING Systems and Anticipatory States of the Nervous System. 9. Energy Is Delight--The Pleasures and Pains of Brain Regulatory Systems. 10. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: The Neurobiological Sources of Rage and Anger. 11. The Sources of Fear and Anxiety in the Brain. PART III: The Social Emotions. 12. Varieties of Love and Lust: Neural Control of Sexuality. 13. Love and the Social Bond: Sources of Nurturance and Maternal Behavior. 14. Loneliness and the Social Bond: The Brain Sources of Sorrow and Grief. 15. Rough-and-Tumble Play: The Brain Sources of Joy. 16. Emotions, the Higher Cerebral Processes and the SELF: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Some Are Born to Endless Night. Appendix A: Bones, Brains, and Human Origins. Appendix B: Brain, Language, and Affective Neuroscience. Appendix C: Dualism and the Neurosciences more...

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This book provides a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and code for Stata and SPSS. It also provides practical advice on a variety of associated issues such as measuring health and living standards, and the application of regression analysis to health data. Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice. more...

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The new gold-standard in anesthesiology. Written and edited by an internationally known team of experts, Anesthesiology gives you a 360-degree view of the field, covering all of the anesthetic considerations, preparations, and procedures for the surgical patient, the pain patient or the critical care patient. You'll find a unique balance between clinical information, practical clinical procedures, and the molecular and basic scientific underpinnings of anesthesiology practice. Anesthesiology delivers a multi-perspective, wide-ranging view of anesthetic drugs, procedures, co-morbid diseases, and need-to-know postoperative pain management strategies. This essential guide not only focuses on general anesthesia, but also is the first to feature a detailed look at the subspecialty of regional anesthesia. Features: Top-to-bottom coverage of the entire field-from preoperative evaluation and intraoperative anesthesia care to care of the critically ill or chronic pain patient; Emphasis on safety, quality and patient-centered care, with an entire section on risk reduction; A focus on the clinical applications of anesthesiology; Complex concepts explained by graphics and illustrations, not equations and formulas; Full-color format and illustrations; Specific drug and interventional guidelines for the clinical management of every OR/post-OR scenario in the anesthesiology field; Key points and key references presented in each chapter; CD that allows you to download illustrations and images to your PowerPoint presentations more...

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Aortic dissection affects approximately two in ten thousand individuals and can be fatal. A result of the combined efforts of participants from the International Registry of Aortic Dissection (IRAD), this book provides an overview of the clinical literature and also incorporates illustrations for further explanation. more...

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